Where the red dirt meets the lip of lake Ballard, it feels like we are stepping into another realm—an otherworldly place inhabited by the ghostly “salt people.” The first, a…
We felt an unrivalled serenity as soon as we entered Kakadu National Park. At the end of the wet season, vast expanses of water cover the flood plains, so still…
Thousands of kms from the ocean, we look a bit odd towing our boat full of dive gear. But our lap of Australia wouldn’t be complete without passing through the…
“Half way there”, “Keep going” read the signs of encouragement along Busselton Jetty. This is because it’s the longest timber-piled jetty in the Southern Hemisphere, stretching almost 2kms out to…
If you have ever watched a BBC nature documentary, you have most likely heard of the annual red crab migration which is synonymous with Christmas Island. Millions of red crabs…
Imagine being in the open ocean, hundreds of kilometres from land, in the centre a coral atoll which rises to the surface from 400 metres. Apart from the encircling shallow…
When our journey around Australia was in the making, Ningaloo Reef was top of our both our lists. Home of the whaleshark, migrating humpbacks, turtles and manta-rays, Ningaloo could easily…
According to our speedometer, the two big red kangaroos beside us were travelling at 50km/h. Effortlessly, they bounded metres at a time, whilst our ute juddered over each bump on…
When our morning began with a young sealion hurtling down the beach towards us, like a puppy who has just been let off the leash, we knew it was going…